gorsty hall fisheries

[Guest eddie willo]

i have fished ther for some time now and was wondering if any one else has ever fished there and what are thier biggest fish from there and what they think of the lake?

eddie

[Guest hairysausagefingers]

Hi,

Just had to reply to this old post.

I used to live about a mile away from it and knew it when it was nice and tree lined. There used to be some nice twenties in there (when a twenty was a good fish, and boilies weren't invented). I used to love stalking the margins at dusk with floating crust in the reeds. It used to fish very well off the top.

Have a look on the OS sheets and you'll find some of the farm ponds nearby have surprising large carp in them. I wonder how they got there? :whistle:

I've not been down for years but the place holds fond memories for me.

 

PS Whoever it was who nicked Jimmy's and my bikes off the car park about 30 years ago please contact me to arrange safe return.... We had to walk home with all our kit.

[jonwrig 0]

Gorsty Hall Fisheries is an excellent Carp Fishery. There was a kill on 2006 that reduced numbers, and even after restocking, the number of large fish remains lower to this day. Its not so easy to catch them now, but they are there to be caught, its us that have to adapt to find methods that work on fish that have more natural feed available to them. I am a very frequent visitor of Gorsty Hall Fisheries and it has been my absolute pleasure to discover the delights of floating baits on Gorsty Lake around the edges in the evenings. As I am relatively new to coarse fishing I was surprised in the summer evenings to find especially Mirror Carp, Common Carp and also other freshwater species such as Roach and Rudd feeding hungrily off the surface of the lake at Gorsty. My own personal best of 16lbs just the other day surprised me as well as the other coarse fishermen nearby and even the lake owner Larry, a Cypriot gentleman, was shocked as to the success I had fishing with a dry fly, the same tackle usually associated with trout fishing. Since I discovered fly fishing for carp as a sport at Gorsty Fisheries I myself have been hooked and I go to Gorsty most evenings and catch between 30lbs and 60lbs of carp every evening, mostly between 6lbs and 10lbs each. Now it seems to me that I know the reason why coarse fishermen look sideways a little at game anglers, not because the methods are so different, at times when I do catch a lot, the ledger and float methods do not work nearly so well. This, however, is not to suggest that fly fishing itself is the answer, but it serves to reinforce the idea that fishing off the surface in general works very well, so whether its bread or fly, or dog biscuit or any other floating baits, at certain times of the day that's what the fish go for. It may be a behavioural change in fish that are supposed to be bottom feeders, that they have adapted to feeding off the surface possibly because of the availability of surface feed that has been introduced by fishermen over the years. Perhaps the failure of some anglers to catch good fish at certain times of day is because they overlook this method of using surface baits, and by not adapting their methods to suit the feeding habits of the fish they miss out on a great deal of good quality sport.

Edited September 14, 2009 by jonwrig